Few other streets in the world house the variegated pageant of life Park Street does. And perhaps fewer still have changed character as dramatically over time as this 250 years old Kolkata landmark.
31 December 2009I asked him for some time, one on one. And explained my contact sheet idea. He wasn’t open to it.
31 December 2009Looking for a Lifeline; Govt Snubs Dantewada; Erased from Congress History; Let Us Not Trifle with the Cause of Justice; Bedroom Politics, a Public Affair
31 December 2009“The Government appoints the committee and then dismisses the findings. It does not have the guts to admit its mistakes. Why appoint committees then?”
30 December 2009A compulsive daydreamer teleports himself to 2020 to doodle a future history of the newsmakers of the next decade.
30 December 2009Jharkhand Polls: New Leaders, Old Troubles; Clean Chit for ‘Naxals’; In a Fix Over Telangana; The Gujarat Directive; Start With Hemant Karkare’s Jacket
24 December 2009Dumped by Cars, F1 Gets Ready to Fly; and Big Award for Small Things: Nano and Human Genome
24 December 2009“One of my favourite weddings was of Karisma Kapoor. She was stunning. Everywhere you looked, there were moments you just had to capture.”
24 December 2009Two much-loved hangouts of the Mumbai elite, housed in the Taj Mahal hotel, have risen triumphantly from their ashes.
23 December 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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